From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 Description of problem: I'm running RH7.2 with all updates on Athlon 1600. One of my serial ports is connected to a Wacom Intuos A6 tablet. I also have a PCI modem of type 536EP. It's driver for the 2.4.x kernels is downloadable from http://www.intel.com/design/modems/support/drivers_linux.htm (Intel-536ep-451.tgz). All devices function normally when using the distributed Red Hat 2.4.9 kernel. After upgrading to the Red Hat 2.4.18-17.7x kernel, the tablet and the internal modem stopped working. They also do not work under the Red Hat 2.4.18-18.7.x kernel. For reference, they also do not work under Red Hat 8.0, with the 2.4.18-14, 2.4.18-17.8.0 and 2.4.18-18.8.0 kernels. Symptoms for the Wacom tablet: the X server complains that it cannot read the driver information. For the 536EP modem: it initializes normally, but generates timeouts during transmission that cause the transmission to fail. I've downloaded the standard 2.4.20 kernel source today and built it using the config file that came with 2.4.18-18.7.x (I only changed the SCSI driver to be resident). With this kernel, all devices function normally on RH7.2. On RH8.0 and 2.4.20, the tablet functions okay, but the modem freezes the system while receiving a fax. When it times out, the system continues to run normally again. Note that this problem could be related to the fact that the Intel driver comes with a precompiled driver module that causes insmod to complain about GCC2 drivers not working in a GCC3 kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot any of the mentioned Red Hat 2.4.18 kernels 2. Start hylafax and X Actual Results: Tablet is not working, and error messages are in the X server log. When sending or recieving a fax the moden timeouts, causing the transmission to fail. Expected Results: How about a working tablet and fax transmission :-). Additional info:
you seem to report 2 independent problems here: you have a problem with a wacom tablet and you use a binary only kernel module. Systems that have the binary only kernel module linked in are very unsupported. Does the wacom problem also happen when you don't have binary only kernel modules loaded?
Created attachment 87024 [details] X server log, RH72, plain 2.4.20 kernel
Created attachment 87025 [details] X server log, RH72, Red Hat 2.4.28-18.7.x kernel
Created attachment 87026 [details] Output of lsmod, RH72, Red Hat 2.4.18-18.7.x kernel
Yes, I've tried that as well. I've created three attachments: the X sewrver log on a working configuration (RH72 + standard 2.4.20 kernel), the X server log on a non-working configuration (RH72 + Red Hat 2.4.18-18.7.x kernel), and the output of lsmod of that configuration (to show that there are no foreign modules). Please let me know if I can provide additional information.
Red Hat errata kernels are now 2.4.20 based, has that solved your problem ?
I've replaced the intenal modem by an external modem, so I cannot feedback on the modem part of the problem anymore. As for the tablet part: I tried the 2.4.20-18-7 kernel but had to go back to the stock 2.4.20 kernel due to USB problems (see bugzilla 97424).
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/